Covering the smuggling of petroleum products continue to operate customs

Four members of the customs post "Emba" was accused of abuse of power: they helped the company which exported illegally from the country's oil, to avoid responsibility.

Ltd. Petroleum Ergney Trade exported to foreign countries a few hundred tonnes of oil products gas oil, fuel oil cargo to declare: export tax per ton of fuel oil is many times cheaper than gas oil. The customs post "Emba" released product from the country, taking, as it should, with each tank samples that are sent for examination to the Central Customs Laboratory. Two months later, the answer came that the tanks sent abroad, was not the oil and gas oil.


The damage to the state, was 253,000 dollars, the company has saved for each ton of oil products almost 115 euros. Under the law, in this case the customs officers had to send a report to the higher authorities, but instead hid violation.

"We have opened a criminal case against four members of a customs post on Part 4 of Article 307, as customs officers really abused of power. Instead the report and take action to eliminate the violations, they wrote a letter stating that no claims that everything is normal, "- explains the prosecutor of the First Directorate prosecutors Aktobe region Ruslan Zhasanov.

Note, the customs authorities for a year did not take any measures. Only after the intervention of the Prosecutor's Office Department of Customs Control of the Aktobe region to present a claim LLP Petroleum Ergney Trade. This notification company is now trying to appeal to ekonomsude. And employees of the customs post, until their guilt has been established, are under house arrest, and even continue to work.